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Kairaku-en was built in the year 1842 by Tokugawa Nariaki, daimyō of Mito Domain. Unlike Japan's other two great gardens, Kairaku-en was originally intended to serve for the enjoyment of the public, by which Tokugawa Nariaki meant the samurai class.
Kairakuen is one of the most popular attractions in Ibaraki Prefecture . It was created in 1842 by the ninth lord of the Mito domain, Tokugawa Nariaki. Like a modern public park, the garden was designed not only for the feudal lord and his warriors to enjoy, but also for the public.
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Kairaku-en was built in 1842 by Nariaki Tokugawa, the ninth feudal lord of the Mito and the father of the last Shogun Yoshinobu Tokugawa. He brought plums from Edo, ancient Tokyo, to plant them. He had the idea of this garden to share the pleasure of contemplating nature with his people. Hence the name Kairaku-en, literally meaning "garden to enjoy...
To visit Kairaku-en, there are several points of entry. Although higashimon gate is closer to the train station and main parking lot, we recommend that you start with the main entry door, omotemon. From here you'll be able to fully enjoy the spirit of the garden as Nariaki intended, designed according to the Chinese philosophy of yin and yang. When...
Shiki Masaoka, a grand master of haiku poetry, made a stop at Kairaku-en during a trip in 1889. He wrote of the garden: "The magnificent natural landscape and landscape architecture create harmony, nothing is missing", and left this haikuto posterity: 崖急に (gake kyuu ni) 梅ことごとく (ume kotogotoku) 斜なり (hasunari) A steep cliff / plum trees all together ...
Kairaku-en is a large strolling garden in Mito-Shi, Ibaraki-Ken. It was built by Tokugawa Nariaki in the year 1841 for the enjoyment of normal people of the area. The garden belongs to the Three Great Gardens of Japan. The best season to visit the garden is in early spring, when the plum trees start to bloom.
Ranked among Japan's three finest landscape gardens, Kairakuen (偕楽園) is most famous for its over three thousand plum trees. The garden is located in Mito, the capital of Ibaraki Prefecture. Kairakuen was built relatively recently in 1841 by the local lord Tokugawa Nariaki.
Kairakuen is a landscape garden built by a feudal lord of the Tokugawa clan in 1842. The site area of this extensive garden with a lake and a green area is the world’s second largest urban park after Central Park in America.
Kairakuen garden. A garden designed, supervised, and built by Tokugawa Nariaki, lord of the Mito domain, at the end of the Edo period (nineteenth century). He intended to open it to the public from the beginning.
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